Well, I thought that the turbo was going in my Thunderbird again, but I was wrong! On the way to work, the 2.3 decided to eat a auxiliary shaft on the way to work! Well, I guess that it my be time for an Esslinger Aux shaft now (for the record, every 2.3 I've own has eaten at least 1-2 of these things!!!!)
Hey, good to see you around, whats been up?
Bob Myers
What do you guys do to eat those? I've had 52 2.3's and NEVER eaten one! This is coming from the guy who wallpapered his garage in blown HG's and speckled the floor with piston chunks!
Too much oil pressure....
Nope, sometimes not enough oil pressure. All of them have been stock engines (bottom ends).
Hey Bob! not much, just in the process of redoing the full suspension on the 86.....and killing Aux Shafts!:D
Areobird, I have so any blow head gaskets, I just started throwing them out do to no room. I also drive about 70+ miles a day, so, I'm tough on the bird.
Mine went a few years back when I had a TC. Don’t know why it went other then about 100-200 miles after I changed the distributor the gears sheared. After changing the shaft I put the ditrib back in w/ the old gear. If I remember right the metals where different, but I learned that too late.
This is a new one on me, what is a auxiliary shaft. I don't think they have these on Cadillac engines; or small block fords.
TED
It connects the timing belt to the distributor.
...and the oil pump!
over at turbo ford they have wright up on how to modify the Aux shaft to help prevent the aux shaft from breaking.
Where is it at? I have a couple of ideas, but a couple require having the engine out of the car.
It's a stumpy little shaft fitted into the lower left front and spins in two bearings... As already mentioned it drives the dist and oil pump instead of driving them from the cam(remember it's on top of the engine)... They are rather soft and generally failure is related to high oil pressure... In the 40 or so 2.3s I've owned, I've never had a problem...